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Satellite pictures released on Thursday showed devastation at a Russian air base in Crimea, hit in an attack that suggested Kyiv may have obtained new long-range strike capability with potential ...
Russia captured Bakhmut, the scene of some of the bloodiest fighting of the 20-month war, in May. Ukraine as been on the counteroffensive since June to try to retake occupied land in the south and ...
The blockade of military units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine during the capture of Crimea by Russia in February–March 2014. On 1 March 2014, Aksyonov said that he would exercise control of all Ukrainian military and security installations on the peninsula. He also asked Putin for "assistance in ensuring peace and tranquillity" in Crimea. [151]
Russia claimed to have shot down 35 Ukrainian drones over Crimea on 5 December. [110] Ukrainian media reported that an oil terminal in Feodosia , a Nebo-M radar system near Baherove , as well as a Russian military helicopter yard, a radar complex, and an anti-aircraft missile control system were damaged in the attacks.
On 27 February 2014, unmarked Russian soldiers were deployed to the Crimean Peninsula in order to wrest control of it from Ukraine, starting the Russo-Ukrainian War. [1] This military occupation, which the Ukrainian government considers to have begun on 20 February, [2] [3] laid the foundation for the Russian annexation of Crimea on 18 March 2014.
Crimea was seized and annexed by Russia in 2014 in a move not recognised by most other countries, and Russia seized other parts of Ukraine in the full-scale invasion it launched in February 2022.
Roger Fenton was sent by Thomas Agnew of Agnew & Sons to record the Crimean War, where the United Kingdom, the Second French Empire, the Kingdom of Sardinia, and the Ottoman Empire were fighting a war against the Russian Empire. The place of the picture was named by British soldiers The Valley of Death for being under constant shelling there. [3]
Russia has carried out preventive strikes after what Moscow called a Ukrainian "terrorist attack" that damaged the Crimean Bridge, president Vladimir Putin said on Saturday.. A Russian couple was ...